4. Experienced teachers' perceptions of the value of the present Teachers' College programmes

5. The socialisation of newly qualified teachers into the school working culture

6. The use made by newly qualified teachers of the knowledge and skills acquired at the Teachers' College

7. Discussion

References

Multi-Site Teacher Education Research Project (MUSTER)

MUSTER is a collaborative research project co-ordinated from the
Centre for International Education at the University of Sussex Institute of
Education. It has been developed in partnership with:

· The Institute of
Education, University of Cape Coast, Ghana.·
The Institute of Education, The National University of Lesotho.· The Centre for Educational Research and Training,
University of Malawi.· The Faculty of
Education, University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.· The School of Education, The University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine's Campus, Trinidad.

Financial support has been provided for three years by the
British Department for International Development (DFID).

MUSTER is focused on generating new understandings of teacher
education before, during and after the point of initial qualification as a
teacher. Its concerns include exploring how new teachers are identified and
selected for training programmes, how they acquire the skills they need to teach
effectively, and how they experience training and induction into the teaching
profession. The research includes analytical concerns with the structure and
organisation of teacher education, the form and substance of teacher education
curriculum, the identity, roles and cultural experience of trainee teachers, and
the costs and probable benefits of different types of initial teacher training.

MUSTER is designed to provide opportunities to build research
and evaluation capacity in teacher education in developing countries through
active engagement with the research process from design, through data
collection, to analysis and joint publication. Principal researchers lead teams
in each country and are supported by three Sussex faculty and three graduate
researchers.

This series of discussion papers has been created to provide an
early opportunity to share output from sub-studies generated within MUSTER for
comment and constructive criticism. Each paper takes a theme within or across
countries and offers a view of work in
progress.